Film Quotes

When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started - I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it's so beautiful - I should be a filmmaker!

I'll do at least one action film every year because of my fans. This is my promise to them.

There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.

Each time I'm in a film, Givenchy dresses me.

I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film.

I've always believed that if you want to really try and make a great film, not a good film, but a great film, you have to take a lot of risks.

Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.

There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.

A zombie film is not fun without a bunch of stupid people running around and observing how they fail to handle the situation.

The film drama is the opium of the people…down with bourgeois fairy-tale scenarios…long live life as it is!

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema.

The film looks suspiciously like the game itself!

A film is one small voice among other large ones. The film is a tiny part of the discourse. You do what you can but under no illusions of what a film can do.

Fundamentally, Eva is just my life copied out onto film. I'm [still] alive, so the story hasn't finished.

To shoot a film is to organize an entire universe.

I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.

Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.

The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.

The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary.

I like films where the music and the sound design, at times, are almost indistinguishable.

A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.

The best education in film is to make one

You have to want to make a film for other reasons - to say something, to tell a story, to show somebody's fate - but you can't want to make a film simply for the sake of it.

The only time I'm totally happy is when I'm watching films or making them.

If I'm working on a film, I'll do sit-ups for before I shoot. Like, 100 in the morning or something.

Film is simply the most complex way you can express yourself

This man (Bergman) is one of the few film directors-perhaps the only one in the world-to have said as much about human nature as Dostoevsky or Camus.

Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?

I don't understand these national awards, because half of those who sit in judgement over Indian films do not... possess the competence to evaluate a film correctly.

I'll never kick dogs, I'll never hurt a child, I'll never slap a woman - three things I won't do on film.

I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the director wanted me. The writer wanted me. Joe Levine said no, I don't want any comedians in this.

I meditated before I hosted the Oscars, I meditate before I go on stage, I meditate in the morning and lunchtime when I'm on a film set.

The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behavior and we sculpt light.

Last, but not least -- in fact, this is most important -- you need a happy ending. However, if you can create tragic situations and jerk a few tears before the happy ending, it will work much better.

After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it's like cinema is stuck in the birth canal.

When you are modelling, you are creating a picture, a still life, perhaps something like a silent film. You convey emotion but you are only using your body.

The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure.

Naina is one of the most special films & special characters that I've played in recent times

I am proud of my connections to Carolina and pleased to know that some results from a lifetime of work on television, film, stage and recordings will have a permanent home in Chapel Hill.

I do believe that an actor, who is self aware, will never do a film that is not an extension of his personality.

You see in Once Upon a Time in the West the whole film moves around her [Claudia Cardinale]. If you take her out, there's no more film. She's the central motor of the entire happening.

I think it was [Jean-Luc] Godard who said that life is nothing but a bad copy of film, but then our ambition must be to make better films and better shapes of forms that are given in life.

The realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is the hardest thing to film.

Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work. Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I'd seen a bad one, I'd feel, "Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better."

I like to see films that come out with lower budgets because you're forced into using your imagination. You don't have everything at your fingertips. You have to create it from scratch.

I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.